Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Animation shown for the standard form 爿, which 丬 is a variant of.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 丬 is filed under 爿 (split wood) — radical number 90 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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丬 means Half Of Tree Trunk, Rad. No. 90.
丬 is written with 4 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 丬 is 爿 (split wood), radical number 90 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.
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